Easy Lunch Box -- oh yeah, baby! It's LUNCHTIME!

Y'all know me and my lunch box obsession. Here's the latest one that actually has all of the features I've been searching for; it's the Easy Lunch Box. I just ordered two sets (you get four per pack) and one cooler sized for it in olive, the color in the picture. I'll be getting my order in about a week, but before I ordered, I spotted a Big Name Brand version. Because I didn't want to waste money on a system that might not work, I tried it out with the cheaper alternative first. It works.

Mermaid (my 14 year old Freshman high school daughter...eeeks!) didn't mind it. She's all into the Cool of things, and doesn't want to look like a dork or geek. She finally consented to me putting her lunch together in the Bento-ish containers I bought, in a black rectangle lunchbox in which the container fit just right. So, yes. The key, of course, is to not pack food she thinks will give her bad breath after lunch or "nutrition" (ie, 10 minute recess), and that she actually likes. Like grapes, strawberries, cheese & crackers, pb&j sandwich. The Swiss cheese/turkey roll-up I made her was full of Fail, and I ended up tossing it when she got home. So, I think it's going to work with the ELB.

Other bloggers have commented on how surprised they were by how much more substantial the plastic in the ELBs are. Hopefully, I can get the Guy to start taking lunch in with him to work instead of going out all the time with the guys in the office. Not only is it a waste of money, it's also making him gain weight. We'll see how that pans out!

So, looking forward to the arrival of this new system. And believe me, I've looked for something simple, with enough space for a sandwich or pasta or salad, and enough for sides and snacks without being too large, having too many pieces, or being too expensive.  I'll let you know!

Darth Vader robs a New York bank

I guess Darth is a little hard-up, eh? Click the link to see the picture.

A man dressed as the Star Wars antagonist Darth Vader robbed a bank in Setauket, New York. The robber was dressed in a character themed mask and blue cape. Armed with a hand gun, the robber stole an undetermined amount of cash from the Chase bank branch.

The robber entered the bank saying that he was robbing it. Customers initially thought it was a joke and began laughing. Detective William Lamb of the Suffolk County Police Department said that one customer attempted to tackle the robber and was attacked. He is seen cowering in the background of surveillance photographs. The robber then approached a teller and demanded cash while brandishing a weapon.

This robbery is the latest in a string of odd bank robberies in the New York metropolitan area. Yesterday the New York Police Department arrested a man robbing banks, while carrying flowers and potted plants. Police are also looking for an apparent cross dressing robber who stuck up a bank in Long Island.

Information from: Wikinews, http://www.wikinews.org

Image: Suffolk County Police Department.

It's not totally humorous, of course: Darth beat up a customer who tried to stop him (the Force was not with the poor man). Where are those stupid little Ewoks when you need them?

New York has all the fun. Jeez: they've even got a cross-dressing robber in Long Island hitting the banks, too!

It's not Fight Club, but bad enough

Remember that scene in Fight Club where the main character shows how he urinated in a tank full of soup?

Three idiots in Australia decided to one-up the movie by adding something more dangerous to some hamburges as a joke:

Two ill after eating burgers laced with multi-purpose cleaner in Australia

A prank by three young kitchen staff at Hungry Jack's fast food restaurant in the Central-Western New South Wales city of Bathurst went wrong when two customers required medical treatment after eating burgers they had laced with multi-purpose cleaner.

According to staff at the Emergency Department of Bathurst Hospital, two Hungry Jack's customers became ill Sunday night after eating burgers contaminated with a chemical believed to be multi-purpose cleaner. One of the patrons was in a serious condition upon arrival at Bathurst Hospital due to being allergic to an ingredient in the cleaning product. "He presented to the emergency department as he was having an allergic reaction after eating a burger from Hungry Jacks, he was in a really bad way when he arrived here and if he had waited much longer it could have been much worse," said a Greater Western Area Health Service employee. "We called Hungry Jacks and they said that three of their employees had been goofing off and sprayed multi-purpose cleaner inside the burgers so we then treated the patients for poisoning."

More if you click this link.

But whoa: the chimps who sprayed the cleaner onto the burgers are still employed by the burger joint? I hope they're not allowed near the food. I hope they're made to lick the toilets clean. Why weren't they fired immediately?
 

And don't eat at Russian fast food stands, folks. You never Who the food is.

And furthermore, don't piss off the homeless there.

Homeless men kill, dismember, eat victim in Russia   (click for the whole story)

A 25-year old man was killed, dismembered, eaten and parts of his body sold to a nearby fast-food stand in the Perm region of the Russian Urals, criminal investigators have reported.


Now, it isn't clear if the guy's enemies actually ate any part of him, but I'm sure it wouldn't have mattered to the people who DID have a gnosh at the stand.  Sweeny Todd would have been proud. Murder and cannibilism-what a heritage! You'd think these men were living in Stalinist Russia.  

Book of Questions #177

What were you afraid of a few years ago that you're no longer afraid of?